Seat Leon Ecomotive
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Vauxhall Meriva SE 1.6CDTi Contract Hire & Leasing Review
Vauxhall Meriva Read our contract hire review of the Vauxhall Meriva SE 1.6CDTi

Lexus CT200H
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Toyota Auris Hybrid Tourer Excel
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Volvo V40 Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Hyundai i10 Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Honda CRV Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Volvo XC60 SE Nav Geartronic Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Volvo V60 SE-Lux Nav D4 Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Vauxhall Zafira Tourer 1.6CDTI Ecoflex 136ps Techline Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Mazda 6 Sport Nav 2.2D 150ps Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Honda Accord Tourer Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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A Road Test in Norfolk & Suffolk
Read our review of the Ford Transit Custom 155PS on a road test around south Norfolk and north Suffolk

Hyundai ix35 Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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New Peugeot 308 Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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Hyundai i40 Tourer Contract Hire & Leasing Review
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New Peugeot 2008 Business Contract Leasing Review
Read our Peugeot 2008 contract hire review featuring the Peugeot 2008 1.6 E-HDI 115 Feline 5 dr.

The New Ford Kuga Contract Leasing Review
With a range of engines and options there’s a Ford Kuga contract leasing package to suit all tastes and budgets.

Ford Mondeo contract lease hire review. Read our Ford Mondeo road test featuring the new 1.6 Ecoboost engine and the usual diesel TDCi line up for economy and performance.

Learn more about the Mazda6 2.2D Sport 150 Nav Diesel Saloon with SKYACTIV technology. A large family executive 4-door saloon, economical on business leasing contracts.

Read our review of the new Volkswagen Golf 2.0TDi GTD 5-door hatch. We road test the 184ps, 67mpg VW Golf GTD. A practical, economical performance car for contract leasing users.

View our review of the new SEAT Leon family hatchback range with free metallic and technology pack. With great packages available to business contract leasing customers, it’s worth considering.

Fiat 500 TwinAir – Retro Fun for the Fashion Conscious. It must be Italian season here at BVL as following on from last months Alfa Romeo test, we’ve got yet another Italian stallion to play with, but to be honest this one’s more Shetland Pony than Shire Horse, but never the less, it shares the […]

New Chrysler 300C Review Haven’t You Always Loved It? Be Honest. I want to find a punchy way to start this review of the new 2012 Chrysler 300C off with a bang, but I can’t seem to find the words, so I guess I’m going to opt for “the new Chrysler 300C is a simply […]

Alfa Romeo Giulietta – Use The Right Side of Your Brain, or Maybe Just Your Heart When it comes to buying a car, we are all naturally a little uneasy, because if we make a mistake, it’s likely to be something we are going to have to live with for years and its probably going […]

Ford Focus Fitted With Award Winning 999cc 3 Cylinder EcoBoost Engine We’ve tested Fords remarkable Focus in the past, in all kinds of flavours and we’ve never come across one we would not be happy to drive regularly ourselves, so imagine our dilemma when the man from Ford contacted us and asked us to test […]

Move Over – The 5 Star Ranger Has Arrived And History Has Been Made…. Pick-up trucks were once the preserve of farmers and builders and it didn’t matter too much how they looked, or even how well they drove, so none of us could have imagined these clunky old things would become the phenomenon of […]

Mercedes S-Class 350 Review You Wouldn’t Think It Was A Driver’s Car – But Think Again! As far as cars are concerned, there’s a fine line between ostentatious flash and understated class and whilst the X-Factor judges seem to opt for the flash route, the captains of industry and heads of state don’t much care […]

Citroen DS4 Review So What Do You Drive? A Citroën, a DS or a Compromise? We’ve always liked Citroën product and in recent years, they’ve just got better and better, but frankly, that’s not been translated into the sales that the French car maker might have hoped for, so could a change of direction improve […]

New Third Generation Vauxhall Zafira Gets the “Tourer” Tag, Whilst The Old Zafira Hangs On In! Vauxhall made one of the worst 7 seat MPV’s in history when the Sintra was released in 1996 and because of that, it didn’t reign long, being chopped by GM in 1999 but even in that short time, and […]

Mercedes B-Class – Gonna Get It Right This Time? Its fair to say that Mercedes first go at making a front wheel drive vehicle wasn’t a raving success. The very upright A-Class of 1997 abysmally failed what’s known as the ‘elk test’ which called on a car to be able to complete a really fast […]

Vauxhall Astra GTC Coupe – More Than A Family Hatch in a Party Dress Vauxhall have always made pretty coupe versions of their standard 5 door hatchbacks and on the face of it, the new Astra GTC is just that, but in fact, it’s far more than that as this isn’t just some tarted up […]

Land Rover Defender – Woefully Awful? But Wonderfully Gorgeous! Looking like a refugee from a war zone, there’s not many vehicles around that have as macho an image as the Land Rover Defender, but similarly, there aren’t many vehicles around that look much like they did over 60 years ago that we still buy today, […]

SEAT Ibiza ST SE Copa – Potentially 91.1 MPG We can’t understand how the term super-mini seems to apply to almost every small car now days, and by way of example, the car we are testing here is a 5dr hatchback with estate car practicality, yet it’s referred to in the industry as just that, […]

Chrysler Delta – Badge Engineering at Its Best? There is something about Italy.  It’s a great place to go on holiday and if you don’t mind pasta, pizza and the odd glass of Pino Grigio, it’s not a bad place to eat and drink either.  Outside of that, opera, romance, gondolas and expensive clothes all […]

Chrysler Jeep Compass – Italian Stallion or American Pie? Way before anyone had ever heard of the name Land Rover, the foundations of a new company and a completely new type of vehicle were being laid in the U.S. which would eventually become known to everyone as Jeep. The use of 4WD in commercial or […]

Peugeot 3008 – The Lion Crosses Over So what’s a ‘crossover’ vehicle?  Well it’s basically a marketing term created by the motor industry to describe a new style of vehicle that sits somewhere between your normal family hatchback and a sports utility vehicle (SUV), hence the term crossover. The benefits are that whilst they might […]

Nissan Juke – The Practical Side Of Cool? We love it when car manufacturers are brave enough to build something that isn’t quite the norm and doesn’t conform to how everything else looks.  OK, cars like this are not going to appeal to everyone and from that perspective, you might think the car manufacturer has […]

Renault “Face-lifted” Laguna – juste meilleur et meilleur Might seem like an odd time to be testing the Renault Laguna, as it was launched in the UK in 2008 but the Laguna has undergone a facelift for 2011 so we thought that as Renault had given it a fresh new look, maybe we should give […]

All Electric Nissan Leaf – Its Not Often We Are Shocked Most people who are passionate about cars would defend the internal combustion engine come what may and indeed, I am one of them. The thought that at some point that’s going to be taken away and replaced with some pathetic, silent, limp wristed electric […]

New Ford Focus – It’s Going to Spoil You for Everything Else Its unusual to begin a car review with a bold statement, particularly one that sums up the rest of the article and so probably removes any reason you’ve got to read the full review, however, that’s what we have decided to do, so […]

New Peugeot 508 Matches The Competition From Audi, BMW or Mercedes When it comes to cars, why do so many drivers have such a hang-up about brands and badges?  What actually happened to us and when did the logo on the key fob take on a whole identity of its own and become more important than […]

Vauxhall Movano Review – The Mould Breaks As We Test A Van We supply stacks of vans, because we are one of the Contract Hire & Leasing company’s that specialise in that area, and we are used to them, but despite the number we supply and despite the amount we test drive, its not often […]

“New” Citroën C4 – “And The Top Gear Magazine Car Of The Year 2010 Is A Citroën” Life would be a lot easier if we didn’t have to face up to competition.  Selling anything in a crowded market place and especially one where two main brands dominate isn’t going to be easy.  Unless of course […]

New Ford C-Max and Grand C-Max – A Sneak Preview Way back in the mid 90’s none of us had heard of the expression  MPV or ‘multi-purpose vehicle’, but French car maker Renault changed all that by designing of a new type of car and one that on the face of it, none of us […]

BMW 320d Efficient Dynamics The Sensible Company Car? Well, Maybe. People choose their cars for lots of reasons.  We all know that how much the car costs and what you can afford is probably the first criteria, but once you’ve got past that, it seems that the cars ‘badge’ and its image are next in […]

All New Saab 9-5 – “Anything but ordinary” (At Least that’s What They Say) A little over a year ago, it seemed a piece of motoring history might be biting the dust when Swedish car maker SAAB, who were then owned by US giant General Motors, filed for ‘reorganisation’ which is effectively the same as […]

Ford Transit Van – 45 Years Old and Still the Best We supply hundreds of vans from across all of the major manufacturers and we test quite a few, unfortunately, they don’t all get to press, however we recently tried the latest Ford Transit and were so impressed that we decided we would take the […]

Ford S-Max – The Magnificent Seven Don’t you feel kind of sorry for those drivers who are forced to have a 7 seat people carrier, because they’ve got large families?  They never look totally happy, because driving a people carrier is the motoring equivalent of wearing a pair of beige cords, it says you’ve given […]

Vauxhall “new” Meriva – GM’s New Family Friendly Baby June 2010 sees the launch of Vauxhall’s new Meriva and we were given a pre-launch car to test by Vauxhall and do you know what, I am glad we were, because it sits in an important and growing sector of the market and our first impressions […]

Citroen DS3 – Move Over Style Icons, There’s a New Kid on the Block. It’s not often us hardened Motor Trade people find a car that makes us turn our heads and hanker to try one.  Well, that’s just happened, with the introduction of Citroen’s moody looking DS3. Aimed at the more fashionable end of […]

Nissan Cube – Its Cool To Be Square! I remember my 8 year old son coming home from school dead chuffed as he had won a gold star for a picture of a car he had drawn.  Maybe if I had realised that the lad had a potential career in front of him as a […]

Vauxhall “New” Astra – On The Podium, But Does It Take The Gold? We always liked old Astra, it was a pretty looking car that was easy to live with, decent to drive and didn’t cost a fortune to run.  However, we never felt the old Astra was the equal of the Ford Focus, which […]

Ford Ranger 4×4 Thunder – You Won’t Believe the Difference Well, it’s been around for over 10 years now, so it seems amazing that we haven’t already written a Road Test on the Ford Ranger, but in all honesty, I am glad we haven’t, because this new model Ford Ranger is simply on another planet […]

Citroën C3 Picasso – Pablo Would Approve Funny, isn’t it, some things in life we take an instant dislike to, whilst others it’s just the opposite and you’re turned onto them from day one and that’s true in the case of Citroën’s latest offering the C3 Picasso. The original press release pictures made the C3 […]

Honda S2000 – Wild and Unpredictable, or Just a Pretty Sports Car? It might seem a funny time to be writing a review on this car, particularly as after 10 years, it stops production in June 2009, but fact is we just didn’t think we could let this pretty little sports car drive off into […]

New Renault Megane Coupe – Automotive Eye Candy We loved the old Megane Coupes of the late 90’s and whilst maybe they were not very coupe looking, they were kind of there, at least in spirit and in the 16v versions, were one heck of a lot of fun to drive, so we were excited […]

Toyota IQ – Not Just Another Small Car We like quirky cars and not many are more so than Toyota’s new IQ. Firstly, I think Toyota might have made a mistake with the cars name and perhaps they should have spun the letters round and called it QI, like the Friday night TV program, because […]

Mercedes CLC Sport Coupe – An Old Friend with a Makeover Whilst we tested this car some months ago, we just never got round to writing our road test, but fact is, we loved the old C-Class Sports Coupe so much at the time we tested it and felt its only correct that we give […]

Toyota ‘New’ Avensis – A European Car, Built In Britain It’s for very good reasons that Toyota is the biggest car manufacturer in the world and that’s because they make well built, well specified and above all hugely reliable cars. OK, not all cars appeal to all drivers and particularly in the UK, where we […]

Vauxhall Insignia – A New Kid On The Block It’s a new name and indeed a new car and it won the European Car of the Year award for 2009 months before you could even buy it, but is the replacement for the aging but not universally loved Vectra all its cracked up to be? […]

New Mark 6 Volkswagen Golf – 35 years old but hasn’t aged a day Seems unbelievable that when Volkswagen rolled its very first Golf out of the factory in 1974, that none of us had ever heard of Swedish super group Abba, who met their Waterloo that year in Moscow winning the Eurovision Song Contest, […]

Ford Kuga 4×4 SUV – A Car For All Seasons They say that 4×4’s are not the flavour of the week at the moment, but we’ve tried a 4×4 SUV that’s going to leave a great taste in almost everyone’s mouth. Being honest we did have some pre-conceived ideas before we tested the new Ford […]

SEAT – New Ibiza – A Little Bit of Spanish Sun C’mon,Before we look at the “New Ibiza” lets look at where it came from. Remember your first Spanish package holiday? Well chances are, if you hired a car, it was going to have been a SEAT. Whilst it wasn’t wonderful, it just didn’t matter […]

Hyundai S111 Coupe – Ferrari Looks with a Tesco’s Price Tag C’mon, everyone who knows what a Ferrari’s looks like must have looked at Hyundai’s bargain basement coupe and said to them selves “that looks a bit like a 550 Maranello” and indeed it does. In the years since the first Hyundai Coupe back in […]

Škoda “new” Superb – Our Car of The Year They say if you want to know about a child, well you should look at the parents. The love affection, care and commitment lavished on the children by doting parents, usually determines how the child will turn out. Well in many ways, it’s the same for […]

BMW 330D M Sport Coupe Firstly, I have to say, it’s impossible not to like this car.  Sounds a bold statement, but I think it’s true. You will know that our road tests look for honest cars, cars that deliver what they promise, but we also look at what they cost and consider that a […]

Vauxhall Zafira VXR – The Worlds Fastest People Carrier? Want to scare 7 people all at once, well in Vauxhalls super fast people carrier, the 240BHP Zafira VXR you can do just that.  Vauxhall claims that the Zafira VXR is the worlds fastest MPV, taking just 7.2 seconds to hit 62mph and running on to […]

Jaguar XF – There is A Heaven on Earth! Difficult to know where to start with this, so I am going to begin with our conclusion, and then tell you why we feel this way. Conclusion:- The new Jaguar XF is the most impressive, able and desirable new car we have driven for years. Big […]

SKODA “new” FABIA I guess we have to be up front here. We all have cars we like and cars we don’t like and so it’s difficult sometimes to be objective and to put aside your own personal feelings when you are writing a road test.  Most times we achieve that and we call it […]

“NEW”  Citroen C5 – More Jean Marie than Klaus? We always liked the old model Citroen C5, it was big car, had loads of bits and offered fantastic value for money.   Whilst it drove well, it was easy to live with and pretty much delivered all you would expect from a car in its class, […]

Volvo C30 Coupe We all got pretty excited when we heard Volvo were about to launch a new “Sports Coupe” and immediately our minds flew back to the 480ES of the 1980s, and the P1800ES before that with a young Roger Moore at the wheel.  Whilst the C30 is indeed a very pretty little car […]

Jeep Patriot Diesel 4×4 It’s not easy to find a bargain in the showrooms now days, but we are pretty sure we have done just that with the new Jeep Patriot. Every inch a Jeep, the new Jeep Patriot blows away the opposition in terms of price, hitting the show rooms at under £16,000. Most […]

Smart ForTwo Passion Coupe Where do we start this road test? OK, let’s start with the truth.  Daimler Chrysler was kind enough to offer us the loan of a Smart ForTwo Coupe for a couple of weeks.  Whilst we said yes to the offer, we kind of figured who on earth could we get (or […]

The all ‘NEW’ Fiat Bravo After a number of years of severe financial difficulties,  Fiat have bounced back with what most observers consider to be one of the most important cars ever for the Turin based company.  The very future of Fiat may depend on the worldwide success of this car. Think about music without […]

Citroen C1 It only seems right to offer you an insight into one of the cheapest cars we offer on Contract Hire. The Citroen C1 (also available in the form of the Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo) is a back-to-basics, simple little run-around, and it is all the better for it. If you want anything […]

Cadillac BLS Luxury Sport Sedan What The advertising slogan says that it’s “More Than a Car, it’s a Cadillac”, well in fact, its more than a Cadillac, it’s a SAAB. The BLS Luxury might sound like a burger you would order at a stateside drive-thru but that’s where it stops and where the Swedish Chef […]

A well built SUV from Chevrolet With everyone talking about green issues, wearing bio-degradable trainers and biking to work, it might seem strange that most manufacturers are still launching new large SUV vehicles and 4×4’s.  Whilst everyone knows these cars are not as bad for the environment as a disposable nappy (at least the cars […]

Citroen C4 Picasso Review Not in the UK until 2007, the new Citroen C4 Picasso is going to seriously challenge everything else in its sector and is undoubtedly the best MPV Citroen have ever offered and arguably, one of the best on offer anywhere. To support this, Top Gear Magazine have just awarded the C4 […]

Citroen C6 Review  More likely to be chosen by drivers that don’t want to be part of the herd, the new Citroen C6 offers a serious alternative to the hundreds of prestige German cars that fill our streets and cram our car parks and you must say, are becoming a bit common now. The styling […]

Clio Renaultsport 197 The Clio RenaultSport 197 is the latest generation of fast Renaults which started 40 years ago with the Renault 8 Gordini and I am sure everyone remembers the Clio Williams and the absolutely gorgeous Clio V6. Powered by a naturally aspirated 2.0-litre 16-valve engine, the latest hot Clio packs a 197bhp punch, […]

Fiat Grande Punto Review  As well as good food, wine, fashion, and red supercars, the Italians have always been famous for making innovative small cars. Thorough the years these cars may not have been the greatest in their class, but they always had something special about them, a little bit of flair and a certain […]

Ford Focus ST Review We were all excited by this car arriving and we all had pre-determined ideas of what we were going to think of the car. We were all in for a shock for rather than an ASBO car we had expected after watching Top Gear, we discovered a superbly sophisticated grown up […]

Ford Fiesta Review The names Fiesta… Ford Fiesta… and in 2006 the Fiesta celebrated its 30th birthday, and still today is the most popular car in its class. The Fiesta has had more re-incarnations than James Bond, and as a birthday treat, Ford brought the Fiesta into the Daniel Craig generation with yet another fresh […]

Honda Civic Review  The Honda CIVIC has become a motoring icon, selling over 16 million since it was originally launched.   Despite its popularity and its quality build, the CIVIC has always been considered somewhat dull and boring. With the new CIVIC, Honda have worked hard to lose that tag and have unleashed one of the […]

Mercedes C Class Sports Coupe Review A sports coupe from one of the most prestigious manufacturers in the world for just £18,000.  Well yes it is possible and it’s also possibly one of the best kept secrets around. There is no doubt that driving a car made by Mercedes makes you feel good.  Makes you […]

Mini Cooper-S The original Mini is a true British icon. Like the VW Beetle, it brought motoring to the masses. Simple, tiny yet deceptively spacious, fun to drive, and ridiculously affordable was the recipe. I could write all day about the achievements (and pitfalls…) of the old Mini, but that would be rather missing the […]

Nissan Note Review  One of our favourite cars, the Nissan NOTE is just plain and simply an honest car that offers stunning levels of space, equipment and value for money. Long gone are the times when someone might not choose Nissan because of the badge. Nissan today are the makers of the fabulous 350Z a […]

Nissan Navara Double Cab Review  Everything evolves and to prove it, just look at the fabulous new Nissan Navara.  If you had the old truck, prepare yourself for a shock. The old Nissan Navara was rugged, workmanlike, and in all but the highest spec models, was utilitarian. Times change, and so has the Nissan Navara. […]

“ALL NEW”  Nissan X-Trail 4×4 Nissan have always made “serious 4×4’s”, but the X-Trail always had a smile on its face and never considered its life off road to be very important. But from later this year, the “all new” Nissan X-Trail, already one of Europe’s favourite “soft roaders”, takes on the big boys in […]

Nissan Qashqai Where hatchback meets 4×4. If you are fed up with conventional cars such as Astra, Focus and Golf, Nissan are about to make your day with the launch of something very different, the Qashqai and its designed and built entirely in Britain. If you need a hatchback, but want an SUV or 4×4, […]

Skoda Octavia vRS Review 200 BHP – Turbocharged – 0-62 in 7.3 seconds – 149 mph – Combined 35.8 mpg. There are hundreds of cars available in the UK market.  For people in the trade like ourselves, we look for honest cars, genuine cars, cars that offer value for money.  We try where possible to […]

Toyota Prius Review – “Hybrid Heaven” Want to achieve over 60mpg? Want to avoid congestion charge? Want to pay low benefit in kind tax? You can now do all this and more in comfortable well built, well specified large automatic hatchback whilst saving the planet at the same time. Sound too good true? It’s not. Everyone has […]

Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch Review  How nice would it be to have all the reliability and cost effectiveness of an everyday hatchback wrapped up in a car that appeals to both your heart and your head. Vauxhall have achieved just that with its gorgeous Sport Hatch. Vauxhall have produced a package that’s big enough inside […]

Vauxhall Corsa VXR – Pocket Rocket We have always admired Vauxhall for offering performance editions of its regular cars.  As far back as 1966, when Vauxhall produced the then very desirable Viva GT, which was followed by the 2300cc Magnum and droop snoot Firenza, right through the a whole range of GTE products including the […]